"The Full Retard"

Five years after his last album I'll Sleep When You're Dead was released, underground rap linchpin El-P will put out his new LP, Cancer for Cure, May 22 via new label home Fat Possum. The record will feature appearances from recent collaboratorKiller Mike, Danny Brown, Interpol's Paul Banks, Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire, and others. "The Full Retard", which is ostensibly a Tropic Thunder reference, is the first single from the album. Clearly, a near half-decade hasn't slowed El-P's roll at all, as the swarming, cyber-jittery boom-bap production style he bomb-dropped circa Fantastic Damage is present and accounted for here. As is El-P's rapid-fire flow, too, cramming syllable after syllable into bursts of breath that seem humanly impossible. Good to have him back.